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2025 Record Store Day Run-Out Groove Whether you're a longtime jazz collector or a curious newcomer, Record Store Day 2025 has something to offer—from unearthed live sets to colorful reissues and ...
Hello, Stanford, goodbye, San Diego State University. Stanford University has acquired the $2.3 million vinyl record collection of San Diegan Bram Dijkstra, just 11 months after a signed 2020 ...
Even for anyone who plans to sleep in, wait a week and buy any of these releases on CD at leisure, April is a sweet month to be a classic jazz fan. “This is the most monumental Record Store Day ...
Bram Dijkstra’s invaluable record collection to be donated to SDSU The nearly 50,000-strong collection has rare albums by Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and a host of jazz, blues, gospel and reggae artists ...
This year’s Record Store Day, when independent retailers are happy to sell you some analog rarities, is coming on Saturday, April 22. There’s some terrific music being made available in ...
Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr., better known to the Latin Jazz world as Cal Tjader, led a long and influential career that changed the course of Latin Jazz. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area ...
By Darren Mueller (Mus'05) (Duke University Press, 448 pages; 2024) Buy the Book In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 ...
It arrives as a two-LP set for Record Store Day via the Jazz Detective Label, followed by double-CD and digital versions on April 28. “Live at Jazz Workshop 1970,” Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers ...
The collection includes jazz, folk, opera, pop, classical, international music and even music video recordings. Since most of the inventory is donated, items range from free up to $500 for the ...